408211 SE Market, State, Social Institutions 2

summer semester 2016 | Last update: 04.07.2016 Place course on memo list
408211
SE Market, State, Social Institutions 2
SE 2
5
Block
annually
English

These seminars accompany the lecture series VO408070. Students will acquire via theoretical, historical and comparative analysis an understanding of cities and urban sociology. The course is of particular relevance to political and economic sociology, political science and organization studies.

The city has been a central theme in sociology since the inception of the discipline. More recently, 'urban studies' has emerged as an area of interdisciplinary investigation across sociology, political science, social geography and political economy. Nowhere is the relationship between state and market more evident that in the urban context. This course will examine major perspectives in the analysis of urban life from early classics - Weber, Simmel, and the Chicago School - to key contemporary debates. Questions discussed include: What is the city and what is its relationship to the rural? How have cities contributed to democracy and to the market economy? How do cities reflect and generate wider social transformations? We examine and spatial urban social divisions, gentrification, urban crime, and urban social movements and urban governance.

seminar papers, case studies and group discussions

Groups and/or individual presentations.

R.T. LeGates and F. Stout (eds.) (2009): The City Reader, 5th edition. London: Routledge.

positive completion of the compulsory module according to § 5 Para 1 No 8.

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Date Time Location
Fri 2016-03-11
13.00 - 14.00 SR 13 (Sowi) SR 13 (Sowi) Barrier-free Vorbesprechung
Fri 2016-05-27
13.00 - 18.00 SR 6 (Sowi) SR 6 (Sowi) Barrier-free Scott
Sat 2016-05-28
09.00 - 16.30 SR 6 (Sowi) SR 6 (Sowi) Barrier-free Scott
Fri 2016-06-03
13.00 - 18.00 SR 6 (Sowi) SR 6 (Sowi) Barrier-free Dahlvik
Sat 2016-06-04
09.00 - 16.30 SR 6 (Sowi) SR 6 (Sowi) Barrier-free Dahlvik